The only good news to come out of the Cho Seung-Hui massacre on the Virginia Tech campus is that it got Don Imus and the paternity of Anna Nicole Smith’s baby out of the cable news cycle – at least for now.
One of the reasons I don’t chase university teaching jobs anymore is because I’ve had students about as screwed up as this quiet, loner from South Korea. I had to report one student to university police at Loyola in 2002 for wearing a heavy army jacket to class – on a hot New Orleans spring day. He was a rebellious kid who sat in the back of the room and disturbed class, and I suspected he had a 9 millimeter under that jacket.
To make matters more suspicious, he was from Columbine, Colorado. Ouch!
It was no fun at all having to negotiate with the university counseling service about him after that incident.
Imagine being a professor and getting writings like the one’s described here and then living through the horror when the shit goes down.
Virginia Tech Gunman Writings Raised Concerns
For some of the best reporting in the country on this big story, check out the Collegiate Times online.
And, is it now about time to start talking about gun control maybe?
Candidates Mute on Gun-Control
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